Over one year ago I found an alternative keyboard layout/keymap for US keyboards, to help type accents, umlauts, and other diacritics, as well as Greek letters, mathematical symbols, subscripts and ...

As we all know, Windows's keyboard layouts are thread-specific. When a layout changes, a message is dispatched to the foreground thread by the shell. So if one wants to obtain the most recent system-...

This option if set allows me to switch to first (us) and second (ru) layouts by simply pressing CapsLock and Shift+CapsLock respectively.
I'm happy with that behavior, since it's very ergonomic and ...

I need to know easy way to make Emacs default key bindings works out of the box or with minimal change at system with several keyboard layouts. For example I taught students and type in English and ...

Both my JetBrains' IDEs (PyCharm and IntelliJ) keep automatically changing keyboard layout. I realize this question is a duplicate (kind of) of e.g. this one PyCharm changes system keyboard layout, ...

I want to change the input language when an entry gets focused (or dialog is shown) in Gtk Python. In my program, a dialog appears many times and the user must enter some texts. In systems which allow ...

Pygame has a constant for example for the exclamation mark, !. The constant is called pygame.K_EXCLAIM. However, in my standard US keyboard layout, the exclamation mark is produced by pressing shift ...

I already know this has been asked countless times, but here is the problem.
I am thinking about making my typing speed up and right now the pick and hunt method that I badly gained using qwerty has ...

Thank you for taking the time to look at this question.
If you press the ‘y’ key on a keyboard, it is my understanding, that a UTF-8 keycode is sent over USB corresponding to the ‘y’ key. i.e. 0x79 ...

My goal:
I am trying to get the MS Keyboard Layout Creator to allow me to perform a carriage return/enter whenever I hit the [R-Arrow] key in combination with the [Control] key, but still have the [R-...

I'm using a digispark arduino-compatible device to emulate a keyboard with an US layout (it uses DigiKeyboard.h as library to do so).
Now,it just takes as input an integer which represent a key and ...

I have a dialog that asks the user to input a name, but the keyboard starts with the numbers characters instead than the letters as usual.
Here is the code I used:
AlertDialog.Builder builder = new ...

This question is originally posted by me in Microsoft Community at:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/msklc-under-windows-10-create-custom-keyboard/8c5a7137-...

I frequently change my keyboard layout via setxkbmap. Recently, this introduces a huge lag, where awesome is not responsive. This happened after my switch to v4.0 (I am not sure whether the upgrade ...

I wanna detect every keyboard layout change with C#. It doesn't matter whether it is switched by win + space or alt + shift or with mouse...
I wrote a code that works considerably well (see below) for ...

I have used Linux and KDE for a long time and my muscle memory wants to switch keyboard layouts by pressing both shift keys simultaneously. Can I use AutoHotKey to implement that on Windows?
I lack ...

So one day, no idea how it happened, my windows 10 PC added "English UK" to the keyboard layouts list. I already had "English US". So now, when I Alt+Shift through the layouts I have both US and UK ...

By default my Windows 8.1 system uses the German keyboard layout. Atmel Studio seems to have detected that during the installation, as some keyboard shortcuts use German characters (e.g. ß).
Due to ...

I have a Java remote application which emulates keyboard on remote PC using AWT Robot. If the remote user presses the extended keys on the keyboard and the keyboard locale is not en_US, the extended ...

I'm trying to make a webapp with hotkeys that work the same for all keyboard layouts. I've done it before with other languages, but I haven't been able to find a way with Javascript. I can only get ...

At my school, the Windows control panel is locked and I am only allow to use the standard German QWERTZ layout there, which I cannot touch-type on. With the agreement of my teacher, I am allowed to ...

I've been trying to solve a mysterious problem with the SoftKeyboard project I'm working on. The source of the problem from all of the research I've done may be related to the layout file that I've ...

I know that I can use the GetKeyboardLayout function in order to retrieve the current keyboard language.
However I am still confused on how to use the return value of this function.
Can someone write ...

To make my keyboard more suitable for programming I want to define which character should be assigned to a certain key.
How can I, for example, assign the '{' character to another key on my keyboard ...

I encountered this issue lately when I decided to increase the security of my Macbook Air (Early 2015) running the latest version of El Capitan (10.11.3). I'm not sure if this issue is relative for ...